In 1984-85 I had a series of mystical experiences which sent me wandering
around America. The whole episode culminated in a spontaneous 3-day Vision
Quest, alone in the Appalachicola Forest of Northern Florida. At the end of
that 3-day quest I had a mystical vision during which I met the Earth Mother
Goddess, and received a blessing or born on my spiritual path. I was also
imprinted with a universal archetypal symbol of wholeness that I painted,
called the Tree of Life. I trace all of my work
with Maya cosmology back to this vision and this symbol. What inspired me
to write Mirror in the Sky was my discovery that this entire episode
(during which I kept a detailed journal of dreams, thoughts and so on) was
paralleled very closely by planetary conjunctions and phenomena. As such,
an uncanny parallel between my inner experiences and astrological auguries
was discovered, and is explored in this unusual book. Here's the Table of
Contents:

Chapter One: Dreams

Chapter Two: Journey

Chapter Three: Vision

Chapter Four: Mirror

Chapter Five: Fruits

Chapter Six: Tree

Chapter Seven: Hieros Gamos

"I felt deeply alive on that warm day, and communed with my heart - heart
of Earth, heart of Sky. Birds flying by seemed to give me their blessing,
and ants did not bother me as I sat in the sandy soil. The air was clean
and seemed like food. I took in each breath like it was food for my spirit.
I did not wear my glasses, and after hours of cleansing tears the distant
treetops were crisply in focus.

A sacred space in my heart flooded into the land and everything was transfigured
by a light of beauty. Where I was at internally seemed to have an effect
on my surroundings. The trees swayed in the sun-made breeze, and the grass
rippled in dancing waves. Everything offered up praise to the sun, which
was a vaguely sensed, invisible presence above. I too, for the first time
in my life, did the same. My God was an invisible presence above the sun.
My vision quest was not planned, but the timing of it seemed right. That
night I had a vision..."

*Graphics from this cover are adapted from copyrighted sources, The Bhaktivedenta
Book Trust (meditating yogi) and Laurence Blair's Rhythms of Vision (the
fancy border), and can not be duplicated for profit.